Apathy Sketchpad

Here are some comics I did for a new project called Henchmen. It follows the lives of the employees of Doctor Malevolex, a supervillain bent on world domination. It’s an area of the classic film genre that’s always intruiged me; how do you hire people to be henchmen? How do you keep them onside when your mission statement includes the word “overthrow”? How do you run an organisation with all the little faults and clichéd mistakes that all supervillains have? It is, with any luck, somewhere between Dilbert and Evil Inc., (although I don’t like Evil Inc. very much so hopefully it won’t be much like that). VillainSupply.com had a good take on the same kind of idea, but they seem to be defunct. (Presumably someone found the large, obvious self destruct button.)

To be honest, I’m not massively satisfied with the first three, but there are a couple coming up that I’m rather looking forward to drawing, and I do think the first three are necessary to explain the setting, which I think should be done in the comics themselves regardless of whether I’ve explained it here or not. It’s the principle of the thing.